Hey you, 2 things can be true.

It’s more rewarding too…

For some reason, we have trouble holding opposite thoughts and/or feelings. But once you make it a habit, things become clearer. 

Am I confident or cocky? Yes.
Am I an intellectual or quite thoughtless? Yes.

Am I strong or actually scared? Absolutely yes.  

Do we love being with friends and being alone? Yes

Do we wanna help our family members and acknowledge their self accountability? Yes

Can you walk and chew gum? Cmon…. 

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But when we ask the same from a group of people, it gets muddy. 

Shouldn’t we have compassion for someone even when they activate anger in us?  “But this is different”.

You’re right. The difference is you’ve chosen to buy into drinking the poison of “anger”, hoping it will harm them.

Jokes on you because you were tricked into becoming them. Then, speaking of mud, the more you throw the more they'll throw back. Who wins? NO ONE. And nothing changes. 

The meditation I teach, Growth Mindfulness, is the practice of opposites working together.

Becoming more stable inward to grow outward. 

Stable = Unmoved by external events —> Stop letting the world out there choose your mindset for you. 

Grow = Being the source of your change —> Your past thoughts don’t have to control your future ones. 

Because I made a mistake, doesn’t mean all I am is tarnished.

Because I aim to understand someone doesn’t mean I will agree with them. 

And because I won’t celebrate one persons death, doesn’t mean I’m ignoring the suffering they caused. I’m just not going to join in causing more suffering.  

It’s not rocket science, it's being better than who I was yesterday.